Ishihara: “The Anime Industry Deserved the Quake!”

Why is this guy still alive?

I'm starting to wonder, who are the people who vote in Japan? Old people, sure their wise but this just stupid, parent are too lazy to take care of their own children so they rely on this
ban. I mean broadcasters in Japan have been trying hard already airing stuff in the dead of the night but if the parents still can't keep their children asleep by then, remove the TV or just don't make children at all.

Its called old age democracy
Get the younger people to vote and we will see a change

btw he was talking about new anime.

OK guys, no..stop making wrong statements I was in japan 2 days ago and one of my fellow mates was making a story about popculture, and one of the topics were entertainment ratings,in which it fell into the ishihara connection between the
industry and the values that the japanese had,stating FOR THE 40TH TIME that "anime has taken a different step in terms of art form,now adays it's all about satisfying 25+ weirdos, even my brother doesn't let their kids watch anime after 5 pm" SO YES it is a problem but you guys are getting to deep into guiltyness instead of seeing reason. "ANIME is getting boring by the minute,only a few of them cares about the quality on em, mostly of them fall in the perversion genere"

this is from a 24 year old japanese guy from Ashitori prefercture.

@ Anon 14:08

I can see that. And it's the only thing I agree with Ishihara on in terms of that aspect. But is killing freedom of speech really the method? Wasn't Bakemonogatari one of the highest-selling anime or something? It may have had sensual elements to it but it was marvelously assembled.

I believe the trend in Japan and the world is that we are trying to clear our genetic memory of sexual bullshit. We have lived under an iron fist of guilt about sex for so long that it is boiling over. If we don't allow ourselves the means to explore and face that which we have avoided with an open mind, we could have a dangerous shift. As it is now, you're seeing people react to the sexuality. How it's portrayed will shift with the times, but for now, they're pushing the limits. Like when South Park said shit, and anime said 'damn' on toonami over here.

Japan has had a rod up their ass about sex, and not in a kinky way. They're so out of integrity in their sexuality, lying to themselves for so long, that I honestly think these 'creepy people' are spearheading a bit of a sexual revolution. It didn't come in the way Japan expected, because if they expected it, then it wouldn't have happened.

I could be wrong, but as awkward as all of this is, it's forcing parents to actually be parents again, it's forcing the conversations out into the open, and it's saturating the market just like others did before, which will shift eventually anyway.

I say: patience.

"anime has taken a different step in terms of art form,now adays it's all about satisfying 25+ weirdos, even my brother doesn't let their kids watch anime after 5 pm"

Actually, it doesn't really matter if 95% of the Japanese public rejects anime.

Foreigners can still keep holding cosplay conventions and buying anime merchandise.

All anime could be produced direct-to-DVD and the industry wouldn't die.

So you're saying, that evrey young guy outthere has no taste on real anime rather seeing stupid ass stories about incest big boobs and stuff like that,this is so wrong,they're shutting down the real anime, and making younger ppl dumber,that's what's happening

I guess Mangaka can't make a decent living off of decent story anymore.

Thats is what we call demographic, where the old would not make way for the young, or otherwise, the 'Old Guard'.

Or you break down from all the bullshit around you.

Pretty hard to live a life being fed bs without becoming like that I think.